New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-06
SUPPLEMENT.
PAGES 9 TO IL.
NOTES FROM LONDON.
lord IDDESLEIGH-MR GLADSIONE-ECoIN
TpIC JOURNALISM MIR. WYNDHAM.

,o,, THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRfbuNh''
V"'" LONDON. January 10;
Lord Carnarvon publishes a letter on Lofu iu'
desleiyh which contains two rather STRIKING loi,i'o
ain the bitterest crisis Of the blttereSo poi'io'
struggle Of recent yea s." writes LORD Carhar'oi'
IL remember his saying to me: hc'oi ,,'o
the House of Commons without kihoiy icch.e ~
Sandstone" Precisely, and that was one Vi eno
traits In Sir Statford's amiable character OF "c'
his own party complained most loudly. saiu y,
INV last that he never freed himself nom thc spen
which Gladstone cast upon him. This Is con',ii,"
lion enough Then adds Lord Carnar'o on -"
love of literature was great, and ailnosU ono 'i"'
personal difference Of opinion In theoe may -
that can now recall was over dlsPu'eu p"oD
of Chaucer." The two men weiV eo"o' 10
go, bol,ino hi,h office In the State. Most Eng
nsbmen will think it slightly ludicrous that TWO
Cabinet Ministers should be losing ther 'eiipers
over a grabbed line in On early EneDsh poet.
PITY more of them do not care more about po-
etry and other things than politics ana potatoes
Tho fau,h Of Enolshmen, Of most Englishmen. In
public life is the limitation Of their lntellectual
interests. Sir Stafford was in 1885 one OF the few
men left in the House of Commons who could cap
classical quotation, Just Mr.. Gladstone is now
almost the only man who ventures on line
from Vircil The culture of Fox and his Whlggeiy
nre vanishing together. Lord Carnarvon is u
charming example Of the survival OF leooc's III
statesman vet he is almost as lonely IN inc Iio"So
of Lords as Sir Stafford was IN The lower OHaiif
Der The peers who have strain OF learning uo
not speak: Lord Sherbrooke for example; ana
those who speak most often have little learning
beyond the domain Of the practical Inc ia'e
Lord Derby has left no successor. vi inc prcseh.
Lord Derby, it was his father himself WHO salu
that a blue book had more charm for him than lio-
mer had.
The reports of last week from Hawarden TO the
Anect that Mr.. Gladstone was seriously I'LL dld nou
and do not deserve mention even TO DE cohOr~
dited. They belong to the class OF JOURNALISTIC
literature which may be called afternoon sensa
tions Ii Mr. Gladstone does not go to church, or
does not read the lessons, does not walk there
or drives back or speaks to somebody VINO Is
second cousin to country DOCTOR straightway
the NEWSPAPERS, or perchance the news a cncies
which supply the clubs, sch ahoat story OF grave
fnlispostjon BY next morning it will have dls
appeared meantime it has done its work and sold
Q few copies of Ime penny sheet not too scrupu-
lous about contents, bills and placards
One of these begins its second cation to-day
With the following headlines
ENGLANDS IMPENDING DOOM.
ALARMING PREDICTION BY PosITiVisr
SECOND BLACK DEATH
Having duly paid your penny and become the pos
SCISSOR Of this paper you presently discover In small
type that England's impending Doom and the
Second Black Death the rhetorical iDIaginations
of Mr.. J. Golfer Morrison, and occur in the intro
duction to a new book Of his called "1he Service
OF Man." just published by Messrs. kecan Paul
A. Co IL believe" SAYS Mr. Morrison, THAT we
ere approaching to great catastrophe in our In
dusaial system which will be a calamity without
Mt sir fhe m
century" Mr.. Morrison has dislike to the steam
enc inc and an apprehension that IL may impover>
tsh wOrlSingmen AMI the State. and uses this Illus
tration to drive his meaning home IL Is a
rather strong one perhaps, but what shall be said
Of the genius Of the journalist who exploits it in
the way above describedP
As for Mr.. Gladstone. recent visitors to 1Iawar-
den speak Of him not merely well. but in trc-
mendous spirits and force. Never more conil-
dent, never more content with the way things ar
going, and never talked with more continuous and
overpowerng energy. None Of us thought OF con-
tributing to the conversation save by way OF
question OF some hint toward fresh topic He
talked on and on, and always with an intens-
ity such as belongs to no other man. l could
hken him to nothing but some huge electrical
machine giving of stream of sparks and shocks.
dazzling, inspiriting and sometimes almost carry
ing the company of their feet or out OF their
chairs. We sat open-mouthed if not hair on end
the very air was ali, with this wonderful oil
mans vitality" Such are the accounts of one
who has seen him face to face for three days. Not
much like serious illness. is itp
That eminent censor mOrun Mr.. Edmund Yates Is
rebukns sIndry Journals, whose conductors. as ne
tells us, have thought fit to follow and perrerl
his own example in the matter OF intervicwin..
"Ihey have discarded" says Mr. Yates "the safe
guards and limitations which we have imposed or
oinsel, and have imported among us what is t.
all practical intents and purposes the system of III
terviewins which has been for so long period the
disgrace and opprobrium of the American press.
The particulars in which they emulate the Amcr
can press are duly set forth.
"Their Jealous emissarics recognize no con-
ventional restraint in their eagerness to manufac
ture copy, and deco1im and veracity alike cast
by them to the winds without conjunction when
ever it suits their purl ose IL the victims theN
happen to select refuse TO submit to the ques
ton at their hands, they have always confession
ready made to put into their mouths and by the
exercise of little native ingenuity convert their
silence into eloquence even more telling than
words"
And 50 he goes on-nothing too dirty or disrepu-
table for them-po restraint except fear OF per
sonal chastscment public indi nation and dis
gust. The American press must be left TO Say
whether it recognizes its own features in thi'
bland presentment II them by the editor of al
English society journal Mr.. Yates ought to know
better than anybody that there other re-
straints uTon journalistic indscrcton besides
those he names. Holloway Gaol Is one. Mr..
Stead, too. at whom this broadside seems aimed
knows something about it. The criminal prosccu-
ton which landed him a cotenant (only not al
the same time Of Holloway with Mr.. Yates was
paid for in part by public subscriptions from hi
dupes. But subsequent actions for libel and for
damages by reason of other excuses Of zeal on Mr.
steads part are believed in the world of Journal
Ism to have eaten up all the profits earned by ii